Known as ‘ChemSex’, this practice has spiralled in recent years due to a boom in the number of dating apps, involves the user using psychoactive substances to enhance sex as well as their performances and make them feel uninhibited. According to Dr. Jacquet, and echoed by the French website RTL, this way of finding more excitement in sex seems to be more popular with young people from quite fragile backgrounds, but more so in the gay community.
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This practice isn’t new, but rather seems to have taken off recently due to the accessibility of these products that can be found relatively easily online. According to the practitioner, engaging in ChemSex also increases the risks of sexually transmitted diseases, serious addictions, a psychotic break (meaning episodes of delirium) and could even increase the risks of death.
Dr. Jean-Marc Jacquet also pointed out that people who engage in ChemSex could quickly lose interest in sexual activity that doesn’t involve these substances. The specialist to described his analysis of people who have experienced this kind of sexual relationship.
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People who engage in ChemSex are particularly worrying medical professionals because they don’t consider themselves ‘drug addicts’, says Jean-Marc Jacquet.
‘They see themselves more as extreme sex experimenters’, he concluded, trying his best to inform and better educate this public in order to prevent this addictive behaviour.
